{"id":10,"date":"2016-10-25T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2016-10-25T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:16:45","slug":"10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/announcements\/10\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Random Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really liked Maha Bali’s post at ProfHacker today:\u00a0Tips for Effective Online Learning \u2013 Community Edition.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

I immediately chimed in with a comment about the importance of meta-learning resources for students, both the content that I share with them through the Growth Mindset<\/a>, Writing Lab<\/a>, and Learning by H.E.A.R.T.<\/a> blogs AND the “challenges” that go with them if students want to actively engage with that content.<\/p>\n

For this post, I want to write about a Canvas tie-in, which is this: one of the ways I weave the content from those blogs into my classes is through the daily announcements, and I use my announcements blog as my Canvas homepage (details here: About My Canvas Homepage<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So, for example, there is a growth-mindset-cat-of-the-day in each day’s announcements, plus there is a widget in the sidebar of the blog so that there is a new cat at random every time a student passes through the Canvas homepage on their way to record an assignment grade (which is the only thing I use Canvas for).<\/p>\n

So, that is the message for today’s “Teaching with Canvas” post: I like being able to have random growth mindset cats to greet my students whenever they arrive. Here’s a screenshot from India.MythFolklore.net<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and that course is 100% open (no log-in of any kind), so just click and see what cat you get! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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And here’s that particular cat at home in the Growth Mindset blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"lotsofrest\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Crossposted at OU Canvas Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I really liked Maha Bali’s post at ProfHacker today:\u00a0Tips for Effective Online Learning \u2013 Community Edition. I immediately chimed in with a comment about the importance of meta-learning resources for students, both the content that I share with them through the Growth Mindset, Writing Lab, and Learning by H.E.A.R.T. blogs AND the “challenges” that go … Continue reading The Power of Random Cats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-meta-learning","tag-crossposted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canvas.lauragibbs.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}